Exploring Elderhood

This programme is not currently scheduled.

This course does not require previous participation in an Experience Week. However, when you book this course please will you send us a short introductory letter telling us about yourself. If you have previously participated in an Experience Week you do not need to write a letter. You can do this by email or by clicking the booking link above to use our online booking system where there is more information about writing your letter.

Alan Heeks & Ineke Vollebregt

Elderhood is a call to find a new sense of yourself and your life purpose, when your presence and being are as important as the doing. Exploring elderhood may call you in your fifties, sixties, seventies or beyond: the issues of our time mean the voice, wisdom and fellowship of elders are urgently needed.

The Findhorn Community is an ideal vessel for this exploration. Findhorn's processes and sacred spaces will help us re-connect with life purpose; we will meet with their Elders Circle, explore their approach to Community Care, and visit projects such as youth projects, community market gardens and the cohousing to explore such big issues as sustainability and support for young people, and how the elders can contribute. Our gathering will seek the voice of the elders, in each of us and as a group, to see how we can meet both wider needs and our own.

Tiered Pricing

We want to ensure that our workshops and events are accessible to a diverse range of people and recognise that one person’s financial situation will differ from another. So that money is not a barrier to participating in our workshops and events, we offer a tiered pricing structure and ask that you select the price appropriate for your personal circumstances. Please take a moment to read about our tiered pricing here.

Includes 7 nights accommodation and all meals.

Alan Heeks is 63, and is author of Men Beyond 50 and The Natural Advantage. He has led many groups on vision finding, living sustainably and elderhood.

Ineke Vollebregt was a member of the Foundation in the 1980s and lived in our satellite community on Erraid. Since returning in 2006 she has served in many of the Foundation's service departments and is currently in the guest department.